"This is not a question of returning to the violence of myth, which purifies and redeems, but rather of accepting violence as something that is part of us and extirpate its creative, anti-determinist, dirty dimension; no longer to seek causes or understand, but rather to incorporate in another context - bodies in contact - the effects, gestures and rhythms undertaken by this force. What is usually feared and evaded, always presupposing violence that is exterior to the body or to life, begins to function as vital energy. Also, as a result, the violence expressed in this way perhaps conveys a shadow of eroticism, with the biting performers suggesting an erotic current running through their bodies." (Laura Erber on Mordedores)

October 23/24: around the hole everything is edge (excerpts) with Marcela Levi and Frederico Paredes.
October 20-22: Workshop with Marcela Levi.

4th September :: Marcela Levi has been awarded today the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize 2010
31o. Zürcher Theaterspektakel Festival :: Zürich :: Switzerland
Statement of the jury::
The Acknowledgment Prize of 5000 Swiss Francs is awarded to Marcela Levi and Flavia Meireles for
their performance around the hole everything is edge. With fascinating simplicity and precise
choreography the two performers manage to create a space full of images on the topic of war and
violence. Their fragmentary, poetic and unmoral approach is touching and at the same time thought
provoking. Flavia Meireles convinces as an outstanding performer and makes a significant contribution
to the success of the performance. Operating at the cutting edge of contemporary dance and visual
arts, Marcela Levi and Flavia Meireles connect with the audience in an open, subtle and direct way
and manage to make them laugh despite the sensitive content of their performance.
With the ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2010, the jury would like to encourage the performers to expand
their artistic researches.

Marcela Levi, performer and choreographer from Rio de Janeiro, premieres her first duo this Thursday (19/11) in Rio de Janeiro. Those who know her work will see there are some significant changes in Around the hole everything is edge. Marcela, who has always worked with solos in continuity, now explores emptiness and non-linear narrative. "It's my first duo and I wanted to work with potent and autonomous actions, without thinking about linear narrative. My bet is that our conversation takes place in absence. We are two on stage, but we only dance together in one moment", explains the artist, who shares the stage with Flávia Meireles...

"We must always keep in mind the essential authors of the 20th century, not because we should imitate them, which is impossible, since our situation is extremely different from theirs, but because, in a certain aspect, we continue to be alike: they also created works in a time in which it was already said that works were no longer possible." Peter Sloterdijk, "Sun and Death".

[...] The second solo, Arena, was, without a doubt, the most audacious in the program. Flávia Meireles, Gustavo Ciríaco and Marcela Levi presented a mixture of video-installation and dance absolutely curious, arguing the relation between the arena space, the artist and the public. The result is new, courageous, disturbing.[...]